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John D. Bidwell has been named the new executive director for Marketing and New Business Development in University Relations. He comes to the university from Baystate Health where he was director of marketing and digital strategy.

Suzanne Fenton, a group leader in the Reproductive Endocrinology Group of the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute for Environmental Sciences, will give the lecture “Early-Life Chemical Exposures and Female Puberty-Related Outcomes in Animal Models” on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 1 p.m. in 160 East Commonwealth Honors College.

Thomas P. Hannum, associate director of the UMass Amherst Minuteman Marching Band, has been honored by the National Association for Music Education and Music for All with the 2016 George N. Parks Award for Leadership in Music Education, a national award named for the man who directed the Minuteman...

With its fall 2016 issue, UMass, the magazine of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, unveils a fresh design and format for its print edition and debuts a magazine website.
The redesigned magazine arrived in campus mailboxes this week; the website, a first for the magazine, went live on Nov. 7...

Lisa McKeag, a UMass Extension vegetable education specialist, has received a two-year, $144,617 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Food Safety Outreach Program to promote food safety education, training and technical assistance for owners and operators of small- to mid-sized farms, farmers’ markets and others who must deal with recent new federal food safety guidelines.

Emergency closing and snow-related policies are being distributed this week to all faculty, staff and students. As winter approaches, campus employees should know how to obtain information related to severe weather, including closing announcements, parking rules, staggered departure procedures for early closings, related time and attendance policies and the rescheduling of final exams on snow days.

UMass Amherst is rolling out a new workshop series designed specifically for farm owners, managers and employees. UMass Vegetable Winter School kicks off on Jan. 10, 2017, with two main goals: to provide education that will help farmers with regulatory compliance and to improve efficiency and overall farm management.